Even Christmas TV Can No Longer Bring Divided Britain Together
Last festive season, a true Christmas miracle occurred: a Left-wing female Church of England bishop said something halfway sensible. Sarah Mullally – then the mere Bishop of London, now the Arch-Chief Compliance Officer of Canterbury – wrote a column in the Radio Times about the hidden meaning of Christmas TV schedules. In her printed sermon, Mullally complained how, in an era of multi-channel TV and streaming services, the previously communal mass audiences of televisual eras gone by had now fragmented into thousands and thousands of tiny little screen-shards, thereby creating an infinitely more atomised and alienating experience for all concerned, the very embodiment of René Guénon’s spiritually disastrous Reign of Quantity. As the Bishopess wrote:
Our lives have become more and more dominated by the instant gratification available through our mobile phones and social media. Streaming sites have sought to displace traditional channels, allowing us to watch whatever we want whenever we want it. With that, the act of watching TV has become more solitary and insular. A far cry from the years many of us remember of three channels and one set per household.
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Secular theology, statism, the BBC, mass immigration, materialism, the queer-tranny military complex, atheism and widespread ignorance, not to mention cowardly institutions like the CoE (Mulally et al) – all have destroyed Christmas.
Santa Claus has nothing to do with the reason for the season – which is situated in the birth of Christ. NORAD ‘tracking Santa’ does not make him real. Credit card debt from buying things you cant afford to appease the Santa cult is however, quite real.
Re the idiot box – it never mentions Christ or the mass of Christ (his birth). Instead idiotic, low IQ movies, worse music, and broken, irrelevant narrative-programming.
If you want freedom, turn off or better still, burn your idiot box and avoid the digital jail. There are greater things in life than being groomed by the state (don’t forget to get your 8th Rona jab, 2:1 deal available, Rona + ‘flu’).
The last TV left my house in 1986 – it hasn’t been missed. Can anyone remember the name of that reviewer, I’m wondering what it could be up to now.
I was distracted from the subject by that review. I meant to say that Mullally should turn off her TV and get down to restoring the place of the Christian Church in Britain.
You’re having a laugh about SM!
I would not be surprised to see her enter the Jungle, Bake Off or Strictly to satisfy her need for more ticks.
I have a good collection of TV and film material from documentaries to comedy. So unless there is something exceptional to watch I satisfy myself by bingeing on Only fools, Allo,Allo, Hi-De-Hi, Sharp, Hornblower, The Cruel Sea and many more, in fact as I get older it’s almost like watching brand new stuff.
This year I may cheer myself up by reading up on Schopenhauer which is positively cheerful compared to what is put out these days.
I’m reading “Crime and Punishment” at the moment 🙂
Ooh, that could be very useful in the future.
Particularly the bit about the 3am knock on the door. The one who opened up to ask how he could help, believing he had nothing to fear because he was innocent and assumed it was just a mistake ended up in the gulag, but the one who knew what would happen escaped through the window and set up in a different city, a free man…
I’m never short of ‘new’ things to watch on TV since I forgot what I watched a month or two back and I’m forever meeting ‘new friends’ down the boozer. Being 77 means never being bored.
Is there a benefit to alzheimers in that you forget you have seen these programmes before and can enjoy them again.
Yep and you make new friends every five minutes!
The Wales Online “Screen Time Reporter” gave the game away about his own personality and leanings when he admitted “Despite being a communal activity in my family household, I had not once indulged in watching it”.
He’s the eternal adolescent, sitting alone in his room over Christmas, wondering how it could be that everyone else gets things so completely wrong.
Now, thanks to Wales Online and the accessibility of the internet, he’s found himself in a position where he can dress up his loneliness and paranoia and claim that it’s journalism..
We have a telly because my Mrs likes to watch stuff and I want to stay married. Left to my own devices I would be happy with YouTube, which has tons of drivel but equally tons of quality, interesting content in a lot more niches, and streaming the occasional classic film from Amazon.
i was sceptical about YouTube and then discovered exactly what you say. There is a lot of absolute crap and propaganda there but if you wade through that it is very, very good. I now have a subscription which is quite cheap and I watch that more than anything else. So if I see something is happening from other sources it’s not long before various opinions appear there.
At the moment I’m watching Alexander Mercouris, in a long interview on who holds the real power. If you have time it’s well worth checking out. Alexander also has a feed called The Duran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chThfziu2ic
Yes I too have a subscription – hopefully the content creators get a small slice of that, and I don’t have to watch the ads. An alternative would be to get an ad blocker and donate to the content creators directly, but I am afraid I am too lazy for that. Yes I have heard of The Duran – it is mentioned from time to time on the Lockdown Sceptics subreddit.
The main thing with YT is to be disciplined and not watch too much silly nonsense – but that’s one of life’s challenges anyway.
Yes, it’s important to “like” content in order to make it popular and I think they get income from the number of views. So non subscribers have to watch the ads. The more subscribers/views the more profitable ads they get.
one thing I have found is that some contributors post out of date opinion or repost old content and you then realise after watching it for 20 minutes that it is out of date. They might say something like Trump will have a meeting in Alaska with Putin in a few days. These vids definitely get a down tick and I wish YouTube would put a stop to it.
I watch the occasional new thing that is recommended to me but a lot of what I watch is stuff from creators I am already familiar with. Not enough hours in the day.
I use it for sports related stuff too – some tips and the occasional bit of highlights.
Usefully I have a TV that has youtube in it and so is easy to watch.
I agree re YouTube ….. and as I’ve not been married for about 32 years I can indulge it, and avoid the MSM broadcast crap as much, and as often, as I choose.
I watch the occasional TV show to keep the Mrs company, and some old films, otherwise she watches the TV and I look at YT.
Perhaps the BBC or ITV could be persuaded to screen one of the Stanley Baxter Christmas Specials, probably from around 1978, or maybe Dave Allen at Large from the early ’80s …..
I’m sure all the “New Brits” we have will enjoy them and will want to chat about the highlights around the water cooler.
Just about the last thing I would want to watch at Christmas (or any other time come to that) is the WEF Frontman and Prize Hypocrite Charles Mountbatten-Windsor pontificating about anything.
https://youtu.be/x1jIw8pVAG0?si=n0nBuRwy34UXM4Kz
BBC Christmas Appeal for funds to pay Donald.
I would like to complain that all of these TV Channels spoiled by football practice. When my mum and dad only had 3 channels they had a telly in the corner of the living room that stood on four legs. I used to put cushions at the back and sides and turned into goalposts with nets. A packet of Persil was the goal keeper and I would fling my plastic ball against the wall and do a diving header or volley with the rebound and lash it past the hapless Persil packet into the roof of the TV SET.
We never had a telly. Instead we listened to A Christmas Carol, read by Martin Jarvis and Denise Briars. We had proper candles on the tree, too. Things change.
We always had real candles on the tree in those little candleholders that clipped on, and lametta tinsel with lead that made it lay properly flat because it had weight and didn’t look like cheap crap, and one of those carousel things that revolved powered by hot air from candles, and special homemade biscuits and lucullus cake.
My sister still has the angel chimes carousel turned by the candles that we had every family Christmas Day. Christmas Eve was always a Vesta curry.
We, too.
My parents used to have real candles until they managed to set their living room on fire by leaving the tree unattended with the candles lighted. Since then, they’re electric but there’s really no need for that provided there’s always somebody in the room who can deal with a nascent fire.
Things must have gone seriously downhill when somebody bemoans the end of family sitting on a sofa and watching TV together at Christmas which isn’t particularly Christian and not particularly family either: While the people may be physically together in this scenario, they’re really all doing something alone.
Christmas I remember would start with going to church together, later gather in the living room and sing some songs, possibly a few people playing some musical instruments, earlier, when we children were smaller, each of us reciting a poem we had memorized for the occasion, dinner, obviously, and later, sitting together and talking or playing some games. TV wouldn’t feature at all except for the children in the runup to church or after the celebration proper was over because people had started to retire to bed.
Or… the quality and type of programmes that a whole family could watch together and enjoy, stopped being made replaced, by the boring woke trash that now fills terrestrial and satellite TV.
“Maybe the first sign of the coming mass fragmentation of the audience into competing individualist or identitarian silos came in terrestrial TV’s unknowing fag-end of 1993…”
Steven Tucker: the unmistakable sign of Socialist tyrants is their dislike for opportunities for people to make individual choices rather than do what the tyrant thinks they should do.
How is Blair ever to be made to account for his crimes? Almost single-handedly turning a happy, well-off, cohesive, kind, welcoming people into a hostile, atomised, immiserated, suspiciously defensive yet still reluctant army of revolutionaries…has got to be crime for which a terrible punishment should be expected, right?